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      V Vn V » « . ^ ™ » ook ' s evidence ^ fi «^/ flffl J ilme £ lliit " ^ tewned" between 2 LSS ?? " !?? " ^ ' * ?" d con *«^ ed that the witnesses had aU been brought to depose pretty well to the same thing , and to agree before the jury irSSh " ^ ? tuepapei-sdropped in the hall' one Of which in jus opinion , was inside the passage and complaining that a certain witness was lot called on . this _ point , he adverted to the evidence about the banging to the door , whiehhe disbelieved - jujdaEunaaked % Bknchnowerwasnot examined ! They had seen witnesses put into the box , and not asked a single question . Why did not Mr . Evans caU a witness so important to him ( the prisoner as that witness was ? If Mr . Evans had acted as an honourable man , he would have called her , that he ( Rush ) mighthave had the opportunity of brin < nnjr put evidence in his £ m > ur . With regard to ° thl

      threatening expressions attributed to him , after what had been said by the witnesses whom he had examined , could they believe that he ever used those expressions ? Then , said he , there is the evidence of Emily Sandford . There is every excuse for her , poor girl , God Almighty knows ! But I shall be able to produce further evidence on this point . 1 nave a letter from Mr . Cann . Can anything be more unfair than the way in which her evidence was taken ? When preparing for her examination in Bridewell , she was with the magistrates at the Hall at twelve o ' clock in the mornin » , and did not leave until twelve at night . What do you think she wa 3 doing all that time ? Why , she was examined over and over again . If I had been able

      to examine her free from the influence of the magistrates , I should have been able to have believed ier , "for I believe she is honest enough to tell the truth . But what can I do under the circumstances ? It was understood when Clarke was examined that I was to haTe hadan oppportunity of cross-examining Iiim . —Thejudgesaid the prisoner could examine him . The prisoner remarked on the evidence of Fulter : As to the trunk of a tree , which Fulter said was laid over a .. dnch between Potash and Stanfield Hall , he should show , by evidence , that , when he had fcwo farms , it was a gap ; and the tree was only laid otov ; hui it was a most absurd thing to suppose tllat any person would venture over this at night . It struck him , too , that he should be able to prove

      tiiat the murder was committed later than stated by Stanley , who said that he was the first person in { he Hall , and that it was then half-past eight . He noticed the statement of Watson and another witness , to show that it was more likely to have been sine o ' clock ; and said from the way hi which the policemen gave their evidence , it always appeared io iiim , thai it was apreyiously concerted story . He noticed some discrepancies in the evidence of the police who apprehended him , as io what was said at the time ; and also to what he said was contradictory evidence , by Pont , about the boots found hi iiis room ; he saying- before the coroner that they von * vet , hut appeared Avy on the side which had been next the fire , but before the magistrates that

      they appeared to have been wiped . All these discrepancies the jury will be kind enough to take into tlscir consideration ; hut thut there may he no dcabt on the subject , he would produce the boots lie wore on the night in question . Why had not the prosecution called Savory ? Why , because they were afraid he would have told the truth , as they had failed to tamper with him . After undergoing i-. venrr examinations , and remaining in Bridewell a considerable tune , they had refused to call him . lie would produce Savory to prove that he ( Rush ) had taken the greatest pains to preserve the game ; that there had been a great quantity of game on the farm , and that there was still , notwithstanding the depredations of the poachers . If Savory was so

      dishonest as not to acknowledge that , nothing could exceed Iiim for lying . —With respect to the direction he was said to have taken on the ni g ht of the murder , Mr . Drane , the surveyor of Norwich , had stated that the river along which he was supposed to have walked , was ten or twelve feet , and eight or nine feet wide . It was not likely that he should have attempted in the darkness of the night , to walk alonir that river , much less to jump across it . The prisoner then adverted to the secret manner in which the witnesses underwent their first examination in the brown parlour in Stanfield Hall , aad expressed his conviction , that Emily Sandford and Watson , the butler , gave true evidence on that occasion , and testimony thai did not do him the

      slig htest damage ; but that , from , the undue influence exercised over them , their evidence was warped and twisted ; and he should show before he had done , that that was the case ; and that Mr . Cann knew very well the gross injustice he was doin" him . After detailing some previous business transaction with 3 tfr . Cann , the prisoner directed the attention of the jury to the statements of those servants who had spoken to have seen him so often at Stanfield Hall . On one day mentioned , the 21 st of November , no one had seen him , not even Watson . Mr . Jenny wished him to go directly through iho front door , and when he Lad any business to transact io call about eight o ' clock in the evening , as hero * the most convenient time . The statements

      of these servants were all false ; he firmly believed that not one of them had seen him half a dozen tunes in their lives . - He again declared his belief that Mr . Cann had tampered with the witnesses ; more especially with Emily Sandford , than whom no one in the world had more grossly perjured herself . —The prisoner again reverted to Watson ' s evidence , and said it was clear Mr . John Cann was in the butler ' s pantry , although the witness said he was sot J that the cloaks taken from Potash were shown at the hall ; and that the witnesses gave their evidence relating to them from what they had seen after the murder . He again referred to Blanchiiower ' s evidence , contrasting it with Head's ; and fiWrrinn-ihathehad put on the wig , and the

      witnesses who pretended to have seen a man with a vi » , said that ho did not resemble him . Chestnoy ' s evidence , he said , was the most extraordinary upon the face of the earth , after what she had stated the first time . There was no secret about the wigs ; a few years ago he was losing his hair , and he had a wi" made , but his hair growing again it became of MHise . He returned it to the maker , who would not take it , and there was an action about it at the county court . He again attempted to weaken the testimony of the witnesses as to Ms identitv by stating that he lived more at Felmingiam than " at Poiash , and was seldom at Stanfield ; the witnesses therefore had not such a knowledge of him at to warrant the minute description they had

      given . The jury now retired for refreshment ; and on their return the trial proceeded . The prisoner commenced by referring to Eliza Chestney ' s evidence , adverting to alleged discrepancies and contradictions , and contending that she could not possibly have had time to identity the man in the passage , or to speak with any certainty as to his manner and dress . His remarks were long , and Of a most rambling nature . On the subject of disguises , he contended , that it was preposterous to think that , if he had gone out in them , as stated , he should have kept them in the house , and repeated that , though he and Mr . Jermy had been on very 1 ^ t « maf he never had any ill-feeling towards him .

      The evidence of Emily Sandford had not been given in court so consistently with truth as ic was before the magistrates ; from beg inning to end , he was sorrv to sav , it had no foundation in truth . He referred to passages of the evidence , to show discrepancies which he contended proved this assertion . Her not recollecting when he named his mother that he also named his children ; her not knowing on the night of the 28 th of November whether her watch , was going or not , were instances adduced why her testunonv was not to be credited . The prisoner , addressing the counsel for the prosecution , said , "I wish to know whether a letter addressed to Mr . Jermy , and another addressed to Mr . Clarke , will be produced ?"— Sergeant Byles said : Yes .

      But no such letters were read in evidence . —The Prisoner : Those letters were from his children . He then a »» ain reverted to the abstraction of papers from his carpet bag ,. contending that many of them were of importance for his defence , and others for the oecuniary interests of Ms children . He Bald hi Hubbersiy ' s evidence were the grossest falsehoods ; and once more adverting to what Emily Sandford tad deposed , he said her evidence was ^ ueneed by mmmsm going , in compliance withhis : wish Shemurt , he ifirmk , recollect many things she & * $£ ** £ for ^ nf ™ A mM ho tni » w it would not do for them

      was agreed that she should behishonsekeeper , both from respect to her family and his own . Ihe jury could see that when she gave her evidence she tras anytbJngbutfnendljtoliinJ --iaiererShehadbeen before . Having again referred to , and remarked he observed that the man who fiK ^^ S ™" Pistol would not have gone round the haU and **

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      ! have turned in at the porch door to carry out hia . aorrible . purposes . " Incurring to Miss Sandford ' s evidence , he said that the paper D was prepared for the purpose of being signed by Mr . Jermy , when he ( Rush ) found him desirous to sanction the terms ; and Emily Sandford ' s , determination to go with him to the hall oh the evening mentioned in her evidence was a proceeding , fraught with much mischief , wa ? most extraordinary , and one which he could never understand . The prisoner , in-the course of his remarks , insisted that thcwitnessesiwere taken and kept by the yrosecuto ' rsin order to ' enabie them to substantiate the ease for , the prosecution . He reverted to the evidence previously riven aboutth * r . have turned in at th . » nn ™ h ^ nm- *« « m nn t w «

      , hall . He then entered upon the evidence of the medical gentlemen and disputed the correctness of the conclusion at which those gentlemen had arrived in reference to some foreign material in the cartridge , « ie fragments of which were found at Stanfield Hall ine prisoner , after having for a short time dwelt upon this part of the evidence , directed his observations to the proofs of the handwritin" the documents were in ; with regard to Howe ' s Evidence no said he never spoko to him for fivo minutes in his life , and he believed God Almighty put it in his mouth that Howe was a big villain . After some it h *? remarks the court broke up at ei-ht o ' clock . He had been addressing the court since ten o ' clock .

      Wedxesuat , April 4 . THE VERniCT . This protracted and extraordinary trial was resumed this morning before Baron Rolfe , at" nine o'clock . Upon the learned baron taking his seat , the prisoner was conducted into the dock , lie appeared little affected by . his extraordinary exertions of yesterday . . The prisoner referred to the evidence of Emily Sandford . Let the jury consider how this witness had given her evidence in that court , and how she had given it before the coroner and magistrates previously . Her evidence would not have been of the slightest consequence , had she not been

      tampered with . The prisoser then referred to the evidence of Howe , and said—If Howe had been . * i respectable man , his evidence would have been of the greatest consequence ; but of course after what they had heard they would not place any credit upon his testimony , as he was one of the worst of characters . He ( the prisoner ) had that morning received a letter , signed by several persons , saying that they had heard Howe state that he would give his evidence on either side for & 20 . He hoped the jury would pay attention to the depositions taken before the coroner and those before the magistrates ; the cross-examination showed some most extraordinary facts . Fulter , for instance , said he could not say that the straw was there a fortnight .

      f— Ihe Judge said , that Howe ' s evidence was of no consequence , and that the question as to how long the straw , had been down , had not . been asked of the last-mentioned witness . —The prisoner ; then complained bitterly of the manner in which lh& p . seeution had been got up by Mr . Cann ; of the keeping his papers by the prosecution ; and of several witnesses having been examined by the magistrates who had uot been brought before the jury . ¦ Uow , with respect to the'documents which had been brought forward , bearing Mr . Jenny's name , it was preposterous to suppose that it was ever intended to make use of them . Mr . Jenny ' s name was so well known that nobody would have taken the one . on the document for his . A document had been taken

      from his papers which would have shown that it was to Ms interest that Mr . Jermy should lire . The prisoner then proceeded : Gentlemen of the jury , I think I can show you that the evidence is ail false from beginning to end . Consider the situation I am placed in , and consider also how many things which might not otherwise be mentioned or ' thougnt of , have been turned and twisted against me . Bear that in mind , gentlemen , and as . God " Almighty knows all that is going on here , I . trust he will enable you to come to a right conclusion . Emil y Sandford's evidence was all false ; Was it at all likely that I should have asked a well-educated woman like her to bo a party to such forgeries , whicli were utterly useless , and which

      the commonesfcobserver must hare detected . ? Poor thing , she said . things , I have no doubt to the best of her knowledge , but then she was tampered with , and her mind was corrupted by those who ought to have known betterj-and wuo ought to have striven to do me justice . Why did not the counsel for the prosecution call Savory ? Why because they knew perfectly well that all his evidence weuld he in my favour . But I shall show before I have done that his evidence goes to establish my innocence , and also that of Mrs . Jermy , whose depositions will be read to you . Why , Mrs . Jermy says that she saw the man ' s coat , and that 6 he is not perfectly sure whether . it was a great coat or otherwise . She knows nothing about disguises or anything of that

      sort . Why , then , I ask again , was she no't called , in order that I might cross-examine her ? Upon my honour , it is a case of false swearing from beginning to end ; and his lordship and the counsel for the prosecution know it very well . If I had committed these horrible murders I could never have looked anybody in the face ; and God Almighty knows that it 1 were guilty I could not stand here so long to plead my innocence . Now , is not all the evidence in my favour ? I am sure , gentlemen of the jury , that you will acknowledge that it is . Gentlemen of the jury , I trust to you now , as I leave the case in your hands . May God Almighty give you wise heads and understanding hearts , bo that you may see through the evidence clearly , and acquit me of ihe horrible charge imputed to mo . The prisoner then sat down .

      The defence , which lasted so many hours , was delivered throughout in a mumbling tone , which was , during nine-tenths of the time , inaudible by the reporters . The address of the prisoner is not , therefore , fully reported , the points of it only being gfren . The prisoner then handed to his lordship the letter he had read in his defence , which was addressed to his solicitor . Mr . Joxes , the crier , read the letter , and some other documents having been put in and proved , the prisoner proceeded to call his witnesses . The first was

      Mr . George Waugh , solicitor , from London . This witness said—I was at Wymondham on the 1 st December . Mrs . Bryant delivered a message to me to the effect that you would be glad to see me , but not professionally . An inspector of police was present , and Mr . John Cann . The policeman retired when Mr . Cann came , and the door was shut . I went out of the room leaving you and Mr . Cann together . I afterwards returned , and said I could not wait . I said you had better have a solicitor , and I thought you could not have a better than Mr . Cann . The next witness was Araircit Walker Hyde . — The prisoner having asked several irrelevant questions respecting the witness Howe , his lordship said that Howe should be re-called . The witness then stood down , to wait until Howe had been further examined .

      The next witness was Maria Blaxchflower . She said—I was nurserymaid at Stanfield Hall , and-was in the nursery on the ni g ht of the murder , when I heard the first report . I heard three more reports before I came down . I came down the back stairs , and went very fast to the servants' hall and back kitchen . I heard a female bustling in the passage . I looked back , and saw a low' stout man with no hat on . He was near the back staircase coming towards the side door . Had no time to see if it was a person I knew . The colour of his dress wasi dark . Had been at the Hall twenty-four days before the murder . Never saw the pi'isoner before . The next witness was the boy Savory . Hived with the prisoner ' s son at Potash . There is a great

      deal of straw at Potash , at Seven Acres . I got the light boots from the prisoner : the ltght pair were wet and the heavy pair were dry ; they had been left at the fire that night by me . I sat up one night at ihe beginning of the shooting season watching for "a nie : one man was taken up for poaching . I was examined at Stanfield HaU the day after the murder . I told them you went out between seven and eight o'clock , or between seven and half-past . That was the latest time 1 saw- the prisoner . I swear it was not eight o'clock . The court then adjourned for ten minutes . On the court re-assembling , the prisoner wished Mr . Howe to be re-called . Howe was then placed in the witness box . He said I do not know John

      Vincent , George Blane , James Ruskey , I . T . Smith , or Mr . Frederick Braine . I never stated that ; I would go to Norwich and swear against Rush for £ 20 . Some jokes were passed about £ 100 being « ot for coming down here , but I never said anything about any money . In fact , I never thought of wetting any . I tried to remain away , and was most anxious to do so , but my surgeon would not give me a certificate because he did not think I was sufhciently ill . I know nobody in Norwich . I made the remark to the witness Hyde . It was thoughtlessly made . . HxnE was re-called and examined by Mr . Prendergast—1 heard Howe say he would come down here and give evidence , either way , for £ 20 , on the 4 th of December . I live in Edward-street ,

      Newroad , at the top of Baker-street . I made a memorandum of Howe's statement . I will not swear that [ did . I committed an error . I made a mistake . t am mi accountant , carrying on business at 39 , Lamb ' s Conduit-street . No name of any kind is on the door . Miss Smith 1 keeps the ground floor . I went there at Chri stmas , 1848 . I pay £ 25 per year . I have had a clerk ( Williamson ) a long time . 5 e stays in the front room . I only knew Howe on the night he made the statement at an Elocution Society . I was the chairman . I lived at a coffeehouse , and have been a publican once , and I have been in the Metropolitan Police . I came from Ireland before that . A solicitor in Londonpaid me £ 3 to come down here . Thei witness then retired . — Rush : It is no use callmg witnesses , and 1 shan ' t cailanv more , when this fellow ( Howe ) comes down at the last moment and sweara au manner of things ,

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      whut can I do ? It is aW "" ? uuuct iii a couit of justice , but you mav- do afi j Cu lik ' e-The Prisoner then ' made appW on cei > t » m documents which he requested might- -PC V * «» » amongst others a lengthened pamphlet which he wrote some years ago . •; The Judge : . Does that pamphlet tend to supw your innocence X—Hush ; Why tno police have taken possession of this pamphlet , and that is the thing . — The Judge : I . don ' t understand what you moan . Do 1 understand . that you wish to offer documentary evidence ? -lHush ! Yes , of course . I wish to show that what 1 stated to the jury was correct . A lengthened conversation took place between the judge and the prisoner . The judge stating that certain papers which ho had called foi from Mr . . „ ., — , , . _ . . , w ,, ««» . j .. « . : : A

      Cann were not admissible as evidence . . This closing the case for the prisoner . Sergeant Btlbs then rose to reply , and after some remarks upon the delicacy of the duty he had to perform , proceeded to comment upon the evidence which had been adduced by the various witnesses . The learned Sergeant concluded a very careful and' lengthy addrcas by remarking that the jury would do their duty towards the prisoner , and also to the prosecution . - ' The learned Judge then proceeded to charge the jury . He said—Gentlemen of the jury , your decision in this case'must be formed exclusively on the testimony which has been given in this court . We are inquiring into the death of Mr . Isaac Jermy , and under what circumstances he came by his death .

      It has been detailed by a number of ; witnesses , but as something may afterwards transpire as tO ( the precise cause of death , I will read the testimony of several witnesses . [ The learned Judge then read the evidence of Watson , Chestney , and Read , in which they speak to seeing the person in the hall shoot the two Mi * . Jermys 7 | He then proceeded to say—that is the account sworn to by three witnessses on the part of the prosecution . It has be en further confirmed by two pieces of evidence which have been put in by the prosecution—I mean the depositions of Mrs . Jermy and Maria Blanchflbwer . Mi' 3 . Jermy said she was the widow of Mr . Isaac Jermy Jermy . On the night of the inurder she ' was with her husband in the drawing-room . A report was heard , and her husband hastened out of

      the room to learn the cause . . A second report took place , when she left the apartment ; and in the staircase hall she saw the body of her husband and a man attired in a disguise , who fired at and wounded her , as also her maid , Eliza Chestney . That is the account which Mrs . Jermy gave . You have , therefore , the testimony of five persons , in addition to which there is the evidence , which is not unimportant , of Edward Stanley , who was the first witness called on Friday , and of Honor Holmes , and although their account differs as to time , still the variation is so small that it is not important ,, and therefore makes no material difference . I may say , by way of anticipation , that Onl y four' shots were fired ; the testimony of the two witnessesproved that they couldnot be expected to be exactly correct as to a

      moment ; God only knows , gentlemen , when his mindshallbe in such a horriblestatoof excitement , as those persons' must have been , what- he would do . . W . hen .. the body of Mr . Jermy was found in the porch , it ' was examined , and , a number of pieces of lead were found , whether they are called slugs , or whatever they arc called , ' does not matter . It seems-to me , gentlemen;—tp ^ be abundantly . clear , that the person who shot young Mr . Jermy shot Mr . Jermy , senior . There is no . doubt . that the person who was in the house on that night was guilty of the murder of Mr . Isaac Jonny ,. senior ,- and it that be the case , there remains only one thing for you to consider , " and that is , who was the man who shot Mr . Jermy , senior , and the other persons afterffarda . Tho urosecutora say the prisoner is tlio

      man , and in order to establish , the fact the first evidence on that point is the same as I have already read to you . Watson said , " I believe the prisoner to be the man , it strnck me at the time he was the man , " and then he . ' pointed to the prisoner and said , " That was the man . " Eliza Chestney , in speaking of the point , says , " She saw the head and shoulders , and she formed a belief at the time that he was the man , and that she had no doubt he was the man . "—The prisoner here made some allusion to the depositions of Chcs'tn'dy ' eh'deav ' o ' uring to show that they varied-. —His Lordship said If you wish it they shall be read , but it does not make the least difference , the slight variation is accounted for by the excited state they were , in at the time ; You have the testimony of four witnesses , who state that

      they are confident that the prisoner is the ' man , they saw in the house . You have also five witnesses who speak to seeing the man ; one , however , did not know him , as she had never- seen him before ; hut the others said they were satisfied he was the man ; that is very conclusive evidence . But thero avo several objections to be made , owing to the state of confusion , which I have previously mentioned , the witnesses were hi at the time . And there is no sort of evidence to which so much attention ought to bo' directed , in order to ascertain its fair burden . There was a Case ihe other day where a man was accused of a brutal and almost murdering attack upon a policeman . He was proved not to have seen or been near the man . It was a mistaken identity ; but at the same time I must say that in this case the parties had all seen the prisoner before , and they were well , acquainted with him , and the least sight might have been sufficient to recognise him . If , for instance ,

      you saw . one of your own children turning a corner , and you only got a sight of its shoulder , it would be sufficient for you to know it . So it was with those witnesses , as they were in the habit of seeing tho prisoner come to the Hall . Mrs . Jermy spoke positively to him ; she was in the habit of seeing him . —Rush : I never paw her in-my life that I recollect . —The Judge ; With regard to the dis . - guisc , if there is anything peculiar in a person , it is not easy for them to . disguise themselves . The four witnesses speak positively to him . They say they are confident Rush was the man . There is a most important thing' in Mrs . Jermy ' s depositions . She says she thought so , and she mentioned it that night . Let us see what the nurse says , " She saw a low stout man , without a bat , ho had a pistol in eacli hand . "—The prisoner again interrupted his . lordship concerning the depositions of tho witnesses . The learned Judge then proceeded with his charge , which occupied auout three hours . The jury men retired and wore absent exactly

      seven minutes . On their return the most deathlike silence prevailed . ' ' ¦ ¦ The marshal of the court said , Gentlemen , how say you . Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty ? The foreman of the jury . —Guilty . Rush—I am innocent for all that , thank God Almighty . The marshal of the court—Prisoner , you are indicted for the wilful murder of Isaac Jermy . You have pleaded " not guilty , " and put yourself on youi 1 country . Your country have found you Guilty . What have you to say ? The prisoner made no reply .

      Baron Rolfe then put on the black cap , and , amidst the entire silence of the court , spoke in tho following terms : —James Bloomficld Rush , after a . trial unusually protracted you have been found guilty of the crime of wilful murder , a crime the highest one human being can commit against another ; the deepest crime under any circumstances of extenuation ; but I regret to say that in your case there is every thing that could add a deeper dye to guilt the most horrible . It appears from letters which you yourself have put in , that to the father , of the unfortunate victim of your malice you felt you owed a debt of deep gratitude . You commenced a system of fraud by endeavouring to cheat your landlord , and you followed that system up by making that unfortunate girl , whom you had

      seduced , a tool whereby you'should commit forgery . And , having done thaf , you terminated your guilty career by the murder of the son and grandson of your friend and benefactor . More cannot be said . It unfortunately nappfinS that gl ' eftt guilt IS S 6 tnetimes allied—in imagination at least—to heroism . ; with something to dr . zzle the mind . But fortunately , in your case , you have made vice as loathsome as it is abominabla * Iso one who has witnessed your trial , and heard the evidence preferred against you , will fail to agree with me when I tell you that you must quit this world by an ignominious death , the object of unmitigated abhorrence to every well-regulated mind . I do not make this statement for the purpose of upbraiding you , hut for the purpose of pointing out' to you the dreadful

      situation in which you stand . To society it must be a . matter of perfect indifference what shall be your conduct in the few remaining days that shall be allowed to you . No concealment of the truth , in which you may persist , will cast the slig htest doubt on the propriety of the verdict which the jury have returned . Jfo confession you can make will add a taper ' s li g ht to the broad g lare of day which surrounds the evidence against you . So far as society is concerned , the conduct you may pursue during the few remaining days you have to live is a matter of perfect iridifference , but to yourself , it roust be most important . Let me conjure you by every consideration of interest , no less than duty , to employ the short space of time that yet remains to vou . in endeavouring , by repentance and prayer .

      as far as may be , to reconcile yourself to tnat offended God , before whom you must shortly appear . In the mysterious dispensations of the Almighty not only is inuchjeYil permitted , but much guilt is allowMfbngo ' unpuriisheuV Ferhaps ft may Je presumptuous , therefore , to trace in any particular crime the avenging hand of God .. But sometimes one does delight in an investigation into such a case , and I must observe what I would willingly omit that if you had made that unfortunate girl vour wife , the policy of the law would have disposed of that link of evidence , which is so conclusive against you . You have been convicted by testimony so clear , that it is perfectly unnecessary for me to dwell upon it . Having said so much , I will oaly add my earnest hope , that you will pass that short space of life allowed to you wth propriety , and that

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      s ; to&n ^ la ^^ tsrwS m % o wS ^ nS £ ^ & ^ Sr ployed by youi ^ lf inpeniteSin ' d p ^ -S Ld'fit you may thus be prepared to moot Ihat * awM doS to which , m the discharge of my solemn duty I am now . about to soitenoo . vou . j We only ^ this—that you be taken to the place from whence you cJ'ne , and thence to a place of execution and that you !> e hanged by the neck until you be dead and may thu Loi-d Almi ghty hare mercy on your A .. .. „ , . ..

      guilty soul . During the delivery of this address , the majority of the persons present were moved to tears . Tho solemnity and earnestness of manner in which the learned baron delivered his address had a perceptible effect on the minds of the audience . Six days incessant labour have fallen to the lot of tho learned baron ; and it may be safely affirmed that on no previous occasion has a judge displayed more patience or more discriminating judgment than Baron Rolfe has exhibited in this caso of tho Stanfield Hall murders .

      Rush was then removed , and , contrary to general expectation , he said not a single word . The court then broke up

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      THE BRISTOL MURDER-TRIAL OF SARAH THOMAS . Tuesday , April 3 rd .-The trial of Sarah Thomas for the murder of her mistress , Miss Elizabeth Jeffenes , commenced at the Gloucestershire aasizea , held w the fehirehall , m Gloucester , at nine o ' clock this morning . Mr . Whitraore and Mr . Skinner were counsel for the prosecution , and Mr . Sergeant Allen for the prisoner . Mr . Whitmsrh having opened the case , Mrs . WHEEliER , a charwoman , of Bristol , deposed that she sometimes went of errands for the deceased , who was occasionally without a servant . She was a woman of violent temper . The last servant was the prisoner . Lucy Chad preceded her . Witness called on her on the Friday , March 2 nd , and was to call again next day . Did call in the afternoon of that day , and found the house closed . ;

      Ann Ham stated that she lived with her husband at No . 6 , Trenchard-street , Bristol , next'door to Miss Jefferies . On the morning of Saturday , the Ird of March , about five o ' clock , witness was awoke by ascrearaing in Miss Jefferies' bedroom , which adjoined her own , being divided by a party wall . Witness being alarmed , went 'to the bedroom of Mrs . Fry , inwhosB"house she lodged , and found that she , too , had been awoke by the noise . Witness , at Mrs . Fry ' s suggestion , knocked at the wall of the bedroom , and about a nvnute afterw&i'ds the screaming ceased . At about seven o ' clock the same morning , the . prisoner came to her house , arid said her mistress had sent her to say she hoped Mrs . Fry would not be alarmed at what she had heard that mornin ' g , for that the cat' had got on her mistress ' s bed and frightened her , and she said that she . was going to leave her service , far that her mistress was a bad mistres « . ; Mrs . Fry corroborated the testimony of the last

      witness . Mr , IIenky JeffekieSi formerly a surgeon , and brother to the deceased , deposed tliat she was sixty-one years of age , arid had been estranged from the family . On Wednesday , March' 7 , the witness accompanied some policemen to the house of his sister , and on proceeding up ' -stair ' s found the body lying on tlie bed partially covered with the bedclothes . Witness described the horrible spectacle presented by the chrpsei the state of the room , which StveatYleu willv blood , ' and oilier appearances presented . " 'Witness-missed'several articles of jewellery , of which ' the majority were afterwards produced in court , having been found on the prisoner and in her boxes , tlie whole of which he identified as the property of his eccentric and murdered sister , i ' ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ .

      ¦ M . Bernard , surgeon , of Bristol , who was called in to inspect the body , more particularised the nature of the wounds which had been inflicted . They were exclusively iipbn the head . There were seven wounds on the head , three of which , in his opinion at least , - Wd'been caused by a blow from a large stone found on the hob by the side of the fire , in the bedroom , arid which stone had been kept in the house fur the purpose of keeping open the kitchen door . ( . This stone , produced in court , was a very heavy one , and would be a murderous instrument in ths hands of a determined assailant . ] Mr . Bernard described the appearance of the body from memoranda taken at the time . His opinion was , that death had been caused by concussion of the brain , produced by the blows on the head . In cases of concussion the suffered usually were incapable of crying out , but he had known cases when parties so suffai ing had been able to cry out .

      A number of policeman were then examined to state the proceedings which had . been taken on the discovery of the murder to detect the perpetrators . These witnesses made the discovery of the stone on the hob of the grate , and which was produced in 6 ourt and bore marks of blood , having also one or two grey hairs upon it . The production of the murderous weapon excited great sensation in the court . Four or ¦ five policemen were called , each of whom produced some portions of the property stolen from the house of tlie murdered woman , and all of Which were found in the house of the prisoner ' s mother , where she had taken refuge , and where she was apprehended in a coalhole , half dressed . This property , consisted offings , brooches , and other

      jewellery , clothes , and . numerous other articles , all of which were fully and very satisfactorily identified by Mr . Henry Jefferies , the brother of the deceased . In the pocket of tho prisoner were found between thirty and forty sovereigns . The prisoner was traccii home with a . number of-boxes , ¦ which were removed frprii Trenchard-street , partly by herself and partly by a inan whom -she engaged . She left her boxes for a short time ( or a , portion of them ) at a confectioner ' s , and called fir them afterwards in a fly . This w . is on Saturday evening , and it was proved that she had stated to one person that she had left Miss Jefferies' service on Thursday , and to another on Saturday , while it was clear that she had not left there until the Saturday , the morning of the murder , when she was seen by ( he aext-dooi ? neighbour .

      Mr . Webb , a neighbour of the deceased , proved that , on the morning of the murder he saw a man removing a box from Miss Jefferies' front door with the aid of a female , who was in the doorway . Tho woman had a bundle under her arm , and was in the act of shutting the door when witness passed . Did not observe the features of either man or woman . This was about eleven o ' clock , am . Mrs . Ryan proved that a young woman left a bundle with her the same afternoon , and fetched it away in the evening . Did not know her . Jobs Rowley , flyman , proved that the prisoner hired his fly on Saturday evening to take her to Horfield . They called at the last witness ' s house and took up a bundle on the way . The prisoner had also a small mahogany box , a frank , and a bag .

      Ann Thomas , the mother of the prisoner , who it will be remembered was at first charged with a participation in the crime of her daughter , was then examined . She appeared quite unmoved , and did not look towards her unhappy child . She stated that the prisoner came home to Horfield on the Saturday afternoon between four and five o clock , and brought her boxes with liev . She represented that her mistress used her very ill , and that she had , therefore , left her . The prisoner went to Bristol again that evening , and also on the Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday evenings following . The police came on the Wednesday night , and , at her daughter ' s request , she told them she was not there . When ihe police' came , the prisoner , who was in bed , ran down stairs , anil hid herself in the coal hole . The prispner was eighteen years of age .

      Several witnesses were then examined to trace the keys of Mrs . Jefferies' front door . These keys , on the Wednesday after the nmivler , were found in a groov . e in the shutters at tlie Flitch of Bacon publichouse in Host-street . They were found to be the door and latch key of the front door of Miss Jefferies' housei Mrs . Soixis proved that , on that Wednesday night , the prisoner was at her house for a short time , and said she had left Miss . Jefferies' house on the previous Thursday . When she left witness ' s house she proceeded in the direction of Host-street , which was within three minutes' walk of witness's house .

      The next class of evidence was that given upon the prisoner ' s extraordinary confession . " This was proved , by two witnesses , viz ., Policemen M'Clymont and Q'Donnell . M'Clymont stated , that while the prisoner was in his custody at the Bristol city police-office , she made the following statement to him of her own free will , and without being questioned , except on one point . She said , " On Saturday morning I was taking down the shutters , when tlie girl Lewis , who used to live there , came and told me that she had been there frequently to get her character from the old woman , and she would not

      give her a character , so that she could not get a situation . She then said she would . go up stairs and kill her .- She went up stairs and killed her with a stone . She then opened the cupboard and took out a small box full of sovereigns , gave me part of them , and kept the rest herself , and also all the silver spoons and plate , and said it would be a long , time before it was found out . We then made some pancakes and eat them , and the stone which the old woman was killed with was put on the hob of the grate . ?' A very similar statement was made to O'Donnell at another-time . .- ;••;

      Lucy Chad , a former servant of Miss Jefferios , and Mr . Palmer , of Bath , ms-then examined , to prove that she had lived a very short time with Miss Jeiferies , and had been ever since in Mr . Palmer ' s service , or at her own aunt ' s house . Charlotte Morgan , another of Miss Jefleriea ' s former servants , said she had lived with her only two days . ¦• , ¦¦¦ - . • • All the witnesses who knew the deceased spoke to her beicg of a very violent temper , ani to her re-

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      quiring the servants to vise very early in the morning . This was the case for the crown . Mr . Serjeant Allux then addressed the jury foi the' -prisoner , arguing that , although ; his learned friend for the prosecution was quiio correct in his facts that the death of the ill-fated Miss ' Jefferies had been occasioned by the violence ' exercised . to » wards her by the prisoner , lie was wrong in his inference that that violence had been tho result of premeditation . He-was there to deny that this was a premeditated aot of violence . He believed that after the untimel y death of Miss Jefferies the sudden impulse arose in the mind of the prisoner , to steal her mistress ' s property . He beliered that the girl , not knowing in her immature idea of things , that there was any difference between murder and manslaughter , and being desirous of escape , appropriated the property as affording the ready-means to effect that escape . ¦ - ¦¦ . # ¦

      His LoRDSHiPsummedup , and r . capitulated the facts of the case , giving a brief but succinct history of it , showing the parts where the evidence affected the prisoner . He read numerous extracts from the evidence of the witnesses , pointing out its application to the case as he proceeded ; and in his concluding remarks s lid that if the jury were satisfied that the screams heard on the Saturday morning were those of the deceased , and thiit the prisoner had inflicted the wounds found on her mistress , with the stone , as set forth in the indictment , they must do their duty , and return a verdict accordingly . Tne learned counsel for the prisoner had , in a very able address , urged the want of proof of premeditation ; but it did not appear that the prisoner might

      not have brought the stone , by which the death of the deceased was caused , from the kitchen on the the previous night , and concealed it in the rooom . It was their duty deliberately to weigh the evidence on both side ? . If they thought that the prisoner did inflict the wounds , which caused the death of Mi * s Jefferies , premeditatedly , they must in that case vindicate the law and find the prisoner guilty of murder . But if they thought that the prisoner had inflicted the wounds in her own defence against her mistress , and in resenting the attacks of her mistress , they would find the prisoner guilty of the lesser crime ofmansaughter . He need not remind them that it they had any rational doubt upon the subject , they must give the prisoner the benefit of it .

      The Jury then retired , and were absent about three-quarters of an hour , On their return they d « livered a verdict of " Guilty of murder , " at the same time recommending the pvi&onev to mercy on account of her youth-His Lordship then passed sentence , during which the prisoner was dreadfully agitated , and at the termination moaned in deepest anguish of mind . She was conveyed from the dock by the officers in a most distressing condition .

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      Health of London During tiie Week . — Tho deaths registered in the week werel , 24 f , or seventytwo more than the weekly average of the season . But it must be observed , that the excess in this return is not caused by sudden increase of mortality : it is due to an accumulation of coroners' cases , which occurred in previous weeks , though they were not registered till tho end of the quarter . The cases on which inquests were held , and registered last week were 198 , and arc principally found amongst violent and . sudden deaths . If sixty be taken as the number of inquests that on the average actually occur in a week , which is probably not far from the truth , 133 avo included in this return to account for the increase of deaths registered . The

      pfil'SOriS who died 111 tll 6 \ vC 6 k were , therefore , about 1 , 100 , while tho average is l , 109 . _ Small pox , measles , typhus , pneumonia , and phthisis , all continue to be less fatal , than usual ; hoopinff cough provails . to some extent . Cholera has nearly disappeared from London , the deaths in last week being not more than four . Six deaths -were caused by privation , most of them , having occurred , probably , in various weoks of tho quarter . A cork-euttor , of thirty-five years , was found in Spur-street , Leicestersquare , and died in twelve hours afterwards , of " exhaustion from want of the , common necessaries of life , and general neglect "—( Inquest . ) The wife of a pensioner at Greenwich died of " serious apoplexy , hastened by the want of proper nourishment " —( Inquest . ) The whole number of deaths in the last three months by starvation , either from poverty or sclf-neglcct , or voluntary abstinence in lunacy ,

      is thirteen ; the number from want of breast-milk and inanition , in the same period , is twenty-eight . A man died from injury , -which he received fvom falling in a state of intemperance . Two lads , respectively seventeen and eighteen years , died from excessive drinking ; one was found dead on board a ship ; in the first quarter of this year , intemperance is reported as the immediate cause of twenty-one deaths ; in other cases persons died of injuries from falls , carriages , or otherwise , after excess in drinking ; also forty deaths are ascribed to delirium tremens , a disease which , in a majority of cases , is the effects of intemperance . A woman died in Thornhill-stroet , Islington , of fever after childbirth , in which the medical attendant certifies , that her illness was agravatcd , if not caused , by bad drainage A girl of six years also died in St . Giles-in-thc-Fielda ( North ) , of "typhus ( five days ); and deficient drainnge , " aoooi'duvg to medical certificate .

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      * , | A , ^> W ~» , _~ . a , Etje fH'oWnttfft Suicidk of a Clergtmax . — We ( Liverpool Journal ) , deeply regret to say that the Rev . Mr . Chapman committed suicide this morning ( Saturday last ) , nt Prcscofc . [ On reference to the clergy list , we found that Mr . Chapman enjoyed the vicarage of Frescot , valued at £ 1 , 352 per annum . ] Regulation op Beer-houses . — The magistrates of the borough of Lecd 3 have adopted a petition to the House of Commons , recommending a more stringent system of . licensing houses , for the sale of beev than that which at present exists , Loss ok the Steam-ship Forth . — An investigation into the circumstances attending the loss of the steam-ship Forth , on tho Alacranes reef , was

      held at Southampton on Saturday last . The tribunal was composed of tho following gentlemen , who constituted an inquiry committee of the company : —Captain . Shepherd , of the East India Company , an Elder Brother of Trinity-house , Chairman ; Captain Mangles , a managing director , Vice-Chairman ; Captain Nelson , an Elder Brother of Trinity-house ; Captain Barton , lt . N ., tho company ' s superintendent at Soutlminptcn ; Captain E . N . Chiippcll ; H . N ., secretary of the company ; Captain Wish , B . N ., auditor of the company ; likewise tlie commanders of three of the company ' s ships in port , Lieutenant T . Hast , R . N ., of the Avon ( the senior officer and commodore of tho company ' s fleet ); Captain William Allen , of the Dec ; and Captain

      W . Vincent , of the Severn . The whole tenour of the evidence ( to which a patient and careful hearing offour hours was given by the committee ) demonstrated that tho loss of this fine steamer arose from—1 , ' an'error in the reckoning ; which , howevcr , ought to have been counteracted by different observations and attention to the sounding lead ; 2 , a violation of the company's regulations in regard to frequent soundings , as before alluded to ; and 3 , by the taking from his post of one of the lookout men . As the most explicit instructions on these Jio . ids are laid flown in the company ' s volume of regulations published for tho information and

      gui-UsinoG of theii' officers , tho resolution amvcu at , after delibration , was , that a laxity of discipline in relation to the duties of the navigation of the . ship caused her position to bo wrongly computed , and her total destruction consequently followed . The decision arrived at liy tho committee was ~ that it would be their painful duty to recommend to the Court of Directors the dismissal of Captain Sturdec and the chief officer from the company ' s service ; that the second officer should be reduced to the grade-of third officer for one voyage , and that the third officer should be reduced to the grade of fourth officer for one year . Lorn * J . Manxeks pou South Nottinghamshire .

      —There is every probability of Lord J . Manners being induced to otter himself as a candidate for the representation of South Nottinghamshire , in which the resignation of Colonel Rolleston will shortly create a vacancy . A requisition is in course of signature , inviting Lord J . Manners to allow himself to be put in nomination . Mr . Bromley , son of Sir Robert Howe Bromley , Bart ., of Stoke llall , has also been requested to offer himself as a candidate , and has acceded to the request . —Jkrbyshire Courier .

      Ciicbch-Rate Seizukes . —Distress warrants were issued on Tuesday by the Southampton magistrates against a great number of persons in the Earl of Guilford ' s parish for church rates . The churchwarden has applied to the earl to repair the church himself , and render the enforcement of tho distress warrants unnecessary ; but the rev . carl is inexorable , and has ordered tho churchwarden to enforce the law . He declares that if the latter falters in the least , he will call On the archdeacon to prosecute him . .. _

      The Mail Robberies . —The Convict Poole . — We hear that Poole is nothing daunted by his sentence . He was heard to say , " I played for a high stake , and I have lost , but I am not such a fool as to reai'Gt it If I had tho same opportunity I should do the same again . " He paid great attention to tho witnesses on the trial , and wrote notes to his solicitor , suggesting questions , incessantly . A quire of paper- ' we should say , at least , was consumed in this way . His wife was not affected on heaving the sentencei . VSho was in court the wholo day- ;—Devonshire Chronicle . . -i

      _ Tbb Mubdebs in Litbbpool , —Mrs . Hcnrichson , mother of the two children murdered in Liverpool , expired on Friday night week . The unfortunate lady remained in a state of insensibility from the time she was attacked by the assassin . On the forenoon of this day the prisoner , John Gleeaon Wilson .

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      was taken up to tlie Southern Hospital , in pj-de that the servant girl might have' an opportunity of "iviii " her evidence as to his identity * , lie mis brought it to the room with six or seven oilw . " > , ) vh-n the girl imme-1 iately pointed him out as the mm who lodged at ' her mistress s house , and made the brnta ! attack upon them . The following ig tl »« statement of tlwrfrl ( Mary Pa-r ) , winch was reduce . l to writing : —She said , she Jived servant with Mrs . Henriclbon , whose husband was at sea . Wiison , who was present , took lodgings at their house for a Miontl ) . lie came on Tuesday night . Her mistress went out the next morning to market between nine and ten o ' clock , and she was cleaning tiie front parlour . Her mistress hud two children—the elder . Geftrge , five years old ,

      and the younger , John Alfred , three years old . The children were left in the house with her when her mistress went to market . They were in the front parlour and the prisoner in the back . In a few minutes after , he came from the back parlour , with a newspaper in his hand and aaked her the price of a set of fireirons , and the fem / er and card tables . He struck the children on the head with the newspaper in fun , and sent them out of the room , but the oldest opened the door again . The prisoner had the tongs in his hand , and asked her the price of them , and she was at the time cleaning the shovel . She did not remember his saying anything , but he then struck her with the tongs somewhere on the head , and knocked her

      down , and she did not remember anything more except lying there . The children were in the room when he struck her , but where they went afterwards she did not know . She never saw her mistress after that . She wau near the fire side uheu he struck her , and remembered nothing afterwards . She had lived nearly five years with her mistress . Had been to Mr . Arkin ' s office lately , where she received £ 10 for her mistress . Her mistress had a green purse , also a watch and chain , which were those shown to her . [ These articles were found on the prisoner when lie was detained at the police-office . ] The prisoner had no luggage with him , but said he -was expecting it .

      A note came to him that morning , which he s ; iid was from his governor , telling him he need not be in a hurry to come to work . He said he must wait for his clothes . She did not know that her mistress wore her watch that morning . The prisoner had no money , and borrowed sixpence from her mistress . When the lad brought the note , the prisoner had but three halfpence out of the sixpence , and her mistress font him three halfpence more to give the lad . The pvisoner otily slept in the house ono night . —The prisoner , on being asked , declined to put any questions and did not betray any sym ;> t-. ms of ei'Wtii'n , his conduct being similar to that he exhibited on the previous evening at the police-office ..

      The Inquest . —On Monday an inquest on the bodes of the sufferers byt he latii murders in Liverpool was held before Mr . 1 \ F . Curry , the borough coroner , and a jury . The jury proceeded in the first instance to view the body of Mrs . Hcnrichson , at the Southern Hospital , and the inquest commenced at the police court , abn \ t hall-past eleven o ' clock . — Daniel Roebuck , a boy , was the iirst witness called . lie said that on Wednesday he took some china to Mrs . Henrichson . 1 rang at the bell , but got no answer . I then looked through the keyhole , and saw the legs or feet of some female lying in the lobby . Could not see her l : ead . When first he looked lie heard several deep groans .: Concluding that she must have fainted , he called a boy and told

      him to look through the key-hole . Then went to the cellar door and shouted . Got upon the window sill and saw the servant and child lying in the front parlour . lie then fetched a policeman . —John Hughes , the young man who first broke the window and entered the house , repeated the evidence he had given before Mr . Rushton . When it was finished the priso- er said , '' I ' ve no questions to put to that chap . " —James Wilson , police-constable , 623 , produced the knife with which the youngest child ' s throat had been cut . Its production caused a shudder of horror in court , and the prisoner was apparently the only one unmoved . — Police-constable Hough produced the bent poker found near Mk . Henrichson ' s head . It was the head of the polter , it appeared , with which the blows had been inflicted , lie also produced the shattered bonnet and v . il that Mrs , Henrichson had worn . —Henry rover , another officer , exhibited the broken tonss and bloody

      shovel . The newspaper , it appearei ) , wliich the murderer had been reading just before the tragedy , was th s Eastern Counties Herald . The witnes went up stairs on tlie discovery ot the murder , and found a box of jewellery that had been broken open . A chest of drawers had also been opened , and part of the clothes scattered upon tlie floor . ( Tlie box of jewellery was produced ; it wns in a very shattered ft 6 iidition ) . The box contained also several articl es of plate , apparently undisturbed . It had a clasp lock in front . —The prisoner at this stage of the proceedings intimated to the turnkey a desire that witnesses should be called to prove an alibi . —The coroner said , very well , it would be desirable to do so . He meant to sit till twelve o ' clock at night , if necessary , to complete the inquest , and he- would rather finish it in one day . He asked where were the prisoner ' s witnesses ?—The prisoner : I gave timely notice that wanted them . —The coroner ordered tluni to be

      sent for . —Mrs . Henrichson ' s death was communicated to the prisoner Wilson on Sunday , but the intelligence had not the slightest effect " on him . He has been rather sullen of late ; but on Sunday this gloominess gave way to a fit of passion , during which he vowed vengeance against Mr . Comnri sioner Ciough , and made an attempt to force a stick out of ihe hands of the turnkey who ' attends him , designing , doubtless , to commitsome mischief ; but fortunately he wa ^ foile d , lie afterwards became again meditative , and ejaculated something to himself . He then , after some preliminary remarks , declared that , if hung , he would , when at the ^ allows , come out with some revelations that would astonish everybody . After this he was again quiet . —Tlie jury re-assembled on Tuesday , and after some further examination ,

      the prisoner was fully committed . Vacancy in the Representation or Sheffield . —On Monday mect ' ngs of both sections of the liberal party were held , to select a representative in the room of II . G . Ward , E-q ... who has been appointed Lord lligh Commissioner of the Ionian Islands , and at each it wasreolvul to support John Arthur Roebuck , Esq . At a me eting of the ultra-Liberal party , which included many i-f the friends of Sir Culling Eardloy , the support which it was agreed should be given to Mr . Roebuck was coupled with the conditions laid down by the meeting of Normanton delegates , at the last el . clion of the West Ridingnamely , opposition to farther religious endowment , support of free trade , economical reform , and a gradual and safe extension of the suffrage , to which was added , n new condition jii favour of the ballot . condemned

      York . - Execution . —George Howe , _ at York assizes for the murder i . f his child at Yarm , was executed on Saturday last at noon . He seemed to be penitent , but ho denied firmly his commission of the deed of which he had been found guilty . Kent . —Execution tor Muudkr . —Millan , who was convicted for the murder of an old man at Beihevsden , in this county , was executpd pursuant to his sentence , at the county . gaol , on Wednesday week last . The culprit was brought out at twelve o ' clock , and after praying for a short time the bolt wfls drawn , and he died without a struggle . lie was only 17 yeava of age , and appettfed to meet his fate without regret . The prisoner Sheepwash was respited on account of his evident weakness of intellect . Ic will be placed in a lunatic asylum , Norfolk . —Another Murdkr . —A fish mercnant named Prince , on Sunday , mortally stabbed a man at Ditchingham , from motives of revenge .

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      Sreumo . DUBHX , FBJVAr . —T > isTnsss ix the Wsst , —The accounts of the progress of destitution throughout certain portions of Connaught continue to be of a most deplorable description . The county of Mayo , ,-ia usual , takes the lead in . the history of horrors . A gentleman named Bilks , writing from Newport , enumerates a fearful catalogue of deaths by starvation , and as tlie names of the unhappy people and all tho circumstances connected with the tvngie scene are duly set forth , there is no reason to suppose that the writer lias been guilty of exaggeration . Mr . Hilles concludes his letter , by stating on the autliority of a person officially connected with the district ; ,

      that fully 1 , 000 lives must be lost within the coming month , as many of those who are on the relief list were getting only a few ounces of yellow meal daily . Equally miserable is , tho condition of Connomara , where , according to the testimony of a lleman Catholiepriest , " theeountry appears as . if it was after being ravaged by some powerful enemy . Despair is visible in every , countenance ; industry of every kind is paralysed ; the fields lie waste , an * every eye is turned to America . A few only are living ,, and . fewer still are making any preparation for tillage . ' * Dudlik-, Sazebdat March 31 . —Mr . & ., & . T > vri > T . —The Freeman's Journal q { to-day has a . column and a half occupied with some of the principal signatures

      to the memorial on bokslf of Charles-Gavan lUnty . It is stated that 10 , 000 signatures- have been , appended , th& prayer vir tho memorial being : that all further- proceediags should bo suspended against the priaoacr . As . he is totally rained , ami . would never embark in polities again , and as life private life was . excellent , there are maay who consider-that clemency may be justly exercised towards him with perfect safety tp the community , Several members of the Royal Irish Academy , and members of the Faculty , besides most , influential laerabevs of the mercantile community , ha-ve signed , tho memorial . A good many barristera have also attached their names . It is a most , respectable demonstration .

      CliEABANCBB AHD EMIGRATION . —BotWOOn the CV 1 Ctions of tenants and the Voluntary . emigration , tho lands of the southern counties will soon bo thoroughly cleared out . The race of small «>™«« is rapidly-disappearing , from the operation ot . eieotments by . wholesale ; whilst those who p * d _ been , renters of the larger classes of few *¦ /^ JjJjS up to two fcundre ! acres , are selling off ihe mum

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 7, 1849, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1517/page/7/